Electrical appliance for the feet.



E. FERNANDEZ Y MORENO. ELECTRIGAL APPLIANCE FOR THE FEET.

' APPLIOATION FILED OOT. 25,1904.

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PATENTED MAY 30, 1905.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 30, 1905.

PAT NT OFFICE.

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE FOR THE FEET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,335, dated May 30, 1905.

Application filed October 25,1904, Serial N0. 229,955-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUSEBIO FERNANDEZ Y MORENO, a subject of the King of Spain, residing at Madrid, Spain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrical Appliances for the Feet, of, which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to voltaic or electric appliances for use in footwear in the manner of a removable insole; and it has for its object to provide such a device having a special and efficient construction, as will be hereinafter particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an under side view of the intermediate Fig. 2 is a plan of the same covered with soft material for the foot to rest on. Fig. 3 is an under side View of the insole after it has been covered with some absorbent fabric and the voltaic piles mounted thereon. Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of the insole; and Figs. 5 and 6 are plan views, one showing the zinc plate of the pile-at the heel and the other the copper plate thereof.

The insole indicated in the drawings has the proper contour for the right foot; but that for the left foot will be constructed in the same manner.

In Fig. 1 the intermediate or body ply of the insole is designated by I. This may be ofthin leather or other suitable material and be provided with a plate S, of steel, for example, for stiffening it at the shank. On the under side of the insole I is applied a covering a of some absorbent material or fabric,

and on its upper face it will have some suitable soft covering b. On the covering a, Fig.

3, are mounted the copper plates O, zinc platesnecessary excitant.

trodes may be of any desired shape or length, the object being to place the plates so that these latter Will come properly under the ball of the foot and be always in direct contact therewith.

The battery B at the heel is made up in a known way of superposed and alternated copper and zinc plates with interposed absorbent fabric, and these are secured also to the insole by rivets and provided with electrodes connecting the poles with contact-plates P. (Seen in Fig. 2.) At the right in Fig. 4 this heelbattery B is seen in section, showing clearly how'the contact-plates P are connected by electrodes with the respective metal plates Z and O of the battery. Figs. 5 and'6 are plan views taken between the metal plates of the heel-battery. In Fig. 3 the battery at the heel is shown covered by a fabric f.

All of the plates of the batteries are perforated for the better circulation of the acidulated water forming the excitant. The form and dimensions of the battery-plates may be varied to suit the circumstances and conditions, and the details of the construction may be varied without departing materially from the present invention.

When to be used, a sheet or piece of some insulating material, as silk, somewhat in the form of the insole, should be introduced into the shoe to interpose between the removable electric insole and the fixed insole of the shoe, and before inserting the removable insole the absorbent fabric of the batteries should be wetted with acidulated water to provide the This insulating material is indicated by s in Fig. 4:.

Obviously the insole may, if desired, be bound about its edges or be finished in any desired manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. An electrical appliance for the foot, comprising as its instrumentalities a removable insole having under it and secured to it at the point where the insole takes under the ball of the foot, voltaic elements consisting of zinc and copper plates disposed in echelon and overlapping with sheets of absorbent fabric between adjacent plates, contact-plates on the of absorbent material between them, the said metal plates being apertured and the two piles having each two pole-contacts on the upper side of the insole, and the insulating material 5 covering the under sides of the piles.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUSEBlO FERNANDEZ Y MORENO.

WVitnesses:

ELADIo POMATA, SALVADOR POMATA. 

